Andrew Abbott's Blog

Tuesday, 27 October 2020

Hurrah, it’s FGR. Boo. Not for me and not for you.

 

It’s a shame the presenter on last  night’s BT Sport FA Cup programme wasn’t a bit better up on Lincoln City politics or he’d have asked Danny Cowley, on as a pundit, what he thought of the draw that pits Lincoln City against a club we rather hoped we’d left behind, Forest Green Rovers.

I’m sure Cowley would have been as diplomatic as ever but there would, surely have been a wry grin on Danny boys face as the tie was announced.

There’s no guarantee of course that City will be able to maintain their winning run against the muesli munchers, especially now we’re under new management and, as the bigger club now, Michael Appleton may well use the fixture to give some of the understudies some game time and a chance to show what they can do.

It’ll be a different game too as Danny usually reverted to a basic hit and run strategy that our old friend Mark Cooper couldn’t seem to get to grips with. That was either because a leopard doesn’t change its spots or, more likely, he wouldn’t want to demean himself, as guardian of the true spirit of the game, by getting down and dirty with us ruffians from Lincolnshire. He’d probably agree with that other paragon of football virtue, Joey Barton who said recently he’d rather lose than employ the, shock horror, long throw tactic employed by that well known long ball outfit Accrington Stanley.

Either way we won’t be there. We will either have to rant and rave at home unless anyone fancies getting together with megaphones on the top of the south common and hoping the wind’s in the right direction?

 

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